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• in Politics
  More U.S. Combat Soldiers in Afghanistan?
  U.S.Army Special Forces Counterinsurgency Efforts Continue Despite shortage on U.S. Green Beret Advisers in Afghanistan.
  by desperatelands / on Nov 3, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “counterterrorism”

• Afghan Push May Threaten Pakistan

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  policymakers continue to debate U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, we asked Rick Nelson, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, to weigh in on the possibility of reconciling Taliban fighters, efforts to track down Al Qaeda and the potential risks that an escalation of the war in Afghanistan ...
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• FBI Discloses Counter-Terrorism Handbook

  
  In General Counsel — Authority: 125
  Under its own procedural manual , which some civil libertarians find "alarming," was the FBI nonetheless proactive enough in investigating the the Ft. Hood shooter? The F.B.I.’s interpretation of those [Bush-era intelligence gathering] rules was recently made public when it released, in response to a Freedom of ...
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• Online Mobilization by Radical Groups

  
  COMOPS Journal — Authority: 401
  by Steven R. Corman I ran across an interesting research article in the most recent issue of the Journal of Communication entitled “‘Carrying online participation offline’–Mobilization by radical online groups and politically dissimilar offline ties.”* The study looks at neo-Nazis and radical ...
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• Italy/US: Italian Court Rebukes CIA Rendition Practice

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 685
  (Milan) - An Italian courts conviction of 23 agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for kidnapping is an historic repudiation of the CIAs crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. The Milan court also found that two Italian officials illegally collaborated in CIA abuses. read more
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• FBI techs shy away from facial recognition – Spends 40 years losing face

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 443
  A senior FBI technologist declared last month that after decades of evaluation, the agency sees no point in facial recognition. He said that 18,000 law enforcement agencies contribute fingerprints and DNA samples to the FBI’s databases and, at their peak, they submit 200,000+ identity verification queries a day. ...
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• Saudi Charities Still a Terror Problem

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 482
  Saudis were shocked to learn, after 9/11, that Islamic charities to which they had been donating were misappropriating contribution toward terrorism. The government stepped in with regulations on donating to foreign-based charities, essentially stopping them. But terrorist and their supporters aren’t stupid: they ...
  5 days ago

• Get Down Moment 11-3 – V /Interview Moment 11-3 – V -V – Episode 1.02 – ‘There Is No Normal Anymore’ – Promo

  
  The Love You Make — Authority: 423
  Erica (Elizabeth Mitchell) discovers what is underneath her partner’s (Alan Tudyk) exterior.
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• Joint Special Ops University: U.S. Needs Hit Squads, ‘Manhunting Agency’

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 443
  U.S. Needs Hit Squads, ‘Manhunting Agency’: Spec Ops Report | Danger Room | Wired.comCIA director Leon Panetta got into hot water with Congress, after he revealed an agency program to hunt down and kill terrorists. A recent report from the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations University argues that the CIA ...
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• Wheels Up–Napolitano Tours Europe and Middle East

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 443
  The Blog @ Homeland Security: Wheels Up–Napolitano Tours Europe and Middle EastSecretary Napolitano departed Washington, D.C. this morning en route to Copenhagen, Denmark – the first stop on a multi-city trip to Europe and the Middle East. The Secretary will travel to Belgium, Denmark, Spain, the United Arab ...
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• INTELLIGENCE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TO LEAD INSIDER’S GUIDE CAREER WEBINAR SERIES — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 143
  INTELLIGENCE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TO LEAD INSIDER’S GUIDE CAREER WEBINAR SERIES Henley-Putnam Faculty Offers Guidance On Careers in Law Enforcement, Intelligence, Counterterrorism, and Protection (San Jose, CA, November 3, 2009) – As part of a new, exclusive series, former intelligence and federal law ...
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• Italy/US: Ruling Expected in Historic CIA Rendition Case

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 685
  (Milan) - The verdict expected Wednesday in a landmark case may present a historic legal challenge to the US Central Intelligence Agencys (CIA) rendition program, Human Rights Watch said today. The trial in Milan of 26 Americans in absentia and seven Italians for the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian imam began in ...
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• Competing Proposals for Cyber Coordinator

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 431
  Last Friday , Senator Joe Lieberman, Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, outlined the key principles he hopes to include in legislation put forward with Susan Collins on cyber security, including a Senate-confirmed cyber coordinator positioned in the White House. On Monday, Senator ...
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• The Second Circuit Dismisses Arar Rendition Case, En Banc

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 765
  My Opinio Juris colleague Julian Ku comments on the dismissal of the Maher Arar rendition case by the Second Circuit in an en banc decision , 7–4.  (Arar is the case of the Canadian who was detained by the US and subjected to extraordinary rendition to Syria.)  Like Julian, and perhaps more strongly, I think ...
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• What is MI5

  
  Suspense Author's Daily HotchPotch — Authority: 133
  “MI5 was founded exactly 100 years ago this month, solely as a counterespionage network. Nowadays, on its 100th birthday, it only spends 3.5 percent of its resources on counterespionage. Espionage is still going on. But espionage by, for example, Russia is plainly not as threatening to national interest now that the ...
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• Words Fail. Almost.

  
  Unambiguously Ambidextrous — Authority: 527
  Airport scanners that can see the shape and contours of your naked body, have been approved with the blessing of Canada’s privacy czar. Did you catch that? The person in charge of ensuring the privacy rights of the citizenry is saying it’s okay for some security guard to look at a naked image of a six-year-old ...
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Antiwar Activists Reawaken as Obama Weighs Afghanistan Strategy

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Shahzad Chaudhary, was published by Politics Daily, October 30, 2009 Sitting in the front row at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, directly in sight of committee Chairman John Kerry, two women discreetly held up two pink cardboard signs that read "U.S. War = Terrorism" and "Drone Attacks ...
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• Obama Considering a Counterterrorism Counterinsurgency Blend

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 450
  Obama at the Naval Air Station Jacksonville The Washington Post expects Obama to announce his decision around Nov. 20. I know hes intent on not rushing, but Im thinking the announcement will come before that, despite Obamas travels to Asia starting Nov. 11: President Obama has asked the Pentagons top generals to ...
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• Coming home to another war - Soldiering on? The human cost of war

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Krystalline Kraus, was posyed to rabble.ca, October 29, 2009 With the war in Iraq still ongoing and the conflict in Afghanistan going from bad to worse, who is paying the price? Can success be measured by piling the dead up against a wall – ours and theirs? How high does the ladder to freedom ...
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• McDonnell: The United States, International Law and the Struggle against Terrorism

  
  International Law Reporter — Authority: 143
  Thomas Michael McDonnell (Pace Univ. - Law) has published The United States, International Law and the Struggle against Terrorism (Routledge 2009). Heres the abstract: This book discusses the critical legal issues raised by the US responses to the terrorist threat, analyzing the actions taken by the Bush ...
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• Canada Gets On With The Job In Afghanistan, As America Mulls Options

  
  Canada's World — Authority: 420
  Last Monday was a rough day for American forces in Afghanistan: eleven soldiers and three drug enforcement personnel killed in two separate helicopter crashes. October, in fact, has been a rough month for the United States, with icasualties.org reporting 56 military fatalities in Afghanistan. This is the highest ...
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